Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, infected with Ebola on mission in Liberia


  • World
  • Thursday, 04 Sep 2014

(Reuters) - A 51-year-old physician, Dr. Rick Sacra, is the latest missionary worker to be infected with Ebola while working in Liberia, the Christian organisation SIM USA said on Wednesday.

Sacra had been delivering babies and working with patients who were not known to have the deadly virus, the organisation said. It had not yet determined how he contracted the disease.

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